Interview Insights: Cambridge

Here's our database of first-hand student interview experiences. You can also watch students talk about other aspects of university in our student videos.

Natural Sciences (Physical)

Gonville & Caius (2017)

I 'messed up' an integration question, then had a very hard mechanics question I got about a quarte…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Sidney Sussex (2015)

One of them was focused on chemistry, but not knowledge based, you really just had to be able to th…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Magdalene (2018)

My first interview had one graph sketching question, where the interviewer lead me through sketchin…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Emmanuel (2015)

One maths based: graph sketching, a question about binary numbers, geometric sequences. One physics…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Emmanuel (2014)

In the general science interview, we started with a graph sketching question, which went fine. They…

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Natural Sciences (Physical)

Selwyn (2016)

One interview involved discussion of my personal statement. The other two interviews each were cond…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.